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Make safety regulations standards (hopefully multiple ones, so there is competition) OPT IN. This works for food safety or kids toys. If you make a thing or p
by newsclues 4y ago
Make safety regulations standards (hopefully multiple ones, so there is competition) OPT IN.
This works for food safety or kids toys.
If you make a thing or provide a service, you get the option of picking a certification. Let's say you sell food. You can pick a highly regulated and strict food certification, and that may be a selling feature for some customers, but it probably has a cost. Or you can pick zero regulation and no cost and rely on selling your product based on low price and product.
The regulating bodies (if there is competition) have an incentive to maintain the standard, more than the current you must comply or else single standard system.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoSounds like a great idea! I look forward to the return of people getting stabbed by Lawn Darts and kids choking on the toy inside their Kinder Egg.
- jhbadger 4y agoLawn Darts were legitimately dangerous, but I think the reason Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US is that US law says you can't sell "candy that has embedded in it a toy or trinket". The intent of the law was to stop things like in the 1950s where toys were literally embedded in the food, which obviously isn't the case with Kinder Eggs. And it obviously isn't really a safety issue as places like Europe that have far stricter safety laws than the US have no problem with Kinder Eggs.